People in H&S: Dorothy Wendel;

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PEOPLE IN H&S
On a chilly December morning in 1948,
a tall, blue-eyed young lady from Ann-ville,
Pennsylvania, emerged from the
Lexington Avenue subway in the New
York financial district. She was new in
town and was somewhat confused by
the rush of the crowds, but she inquired
her way to 67 Broad Street. An em­ployment
agency had directed her to
Haskins & Sells ("the name didn't
mean a thing to me at the time") where
a receptionist was needed. After an
interview with Wilmer Green, and an­other
with Harry Earl, the office man-
Dorothy Wendel
ager, Dorothy Kreamer got the job.
Now she is known by her married
name, Dorothy Wendel, to many hun­dreds
of H&S people in all parts of the
country who have met her at meetings,
or talked with her on the telephone or
exchanged letters with her. In her time
she has in some way had a hand in
hiring or processing the personnel rec­ords
of the vast majority of people now
connected with the Firm.
To all who have come into direct
contact with her, the essential Dottie
Wendel is compounded of a gracious
manner, a pleasant, sympathetic voice
and a winning smile. Yet for all her
warmth she is a thorough professional,
who can make the yes-or-no decisions
with dispatch. As several people close
to her attest, if anyone was born with
the right temperament for personnel
work, Dottie Wendel is one. Among the
partners responsible for personnel ad­ministration
who have seen her develop
have been Ed Lang, now in Newark,
Robert Steele, in the Executive Office
international department, and Larry
Walsh, now partner in charge of the
Philadelphia Office.
Since last October Dottie has taken
on new duties as an assistant to Irwin
C. Rust, EO partner in charge of per­sonnel
administration. She relieves him
of much of the work in executing per­sonnel
policies, especially where an eye
for detail is critical. Her present posi­tion
represents a logical progression
from the duties she had been handling
since 1952, when she left her EO re­ceptionist's
post to go into administra­tive
work. Through the years since that
time, Dottie's responsibilities steadily
grew with her capacities. Among other
things, she has interviewed hundreds
of applicants for clerical positions with
the EO, and made the first determina­tion
as to whether or not they and the
Firm would do well together. She has
administered typing tests, followed up
references submitted by applicants,
seen to the administration of salary in­creases,
collated the reports from all
states on CPA examination results, and
in general followed up the paperwork
relating to hundreds of human beings.
Through it all her watchwords have
been: Get It Done, Do It Now, Keep
It Current and, above all, Get It Right.